I usually don't write about new materialistic purchases - for instance; I don't think I ever wrote about buying my last car, because there wasn't much of a story in signing a title. The story I should have written was about the last minute plane ride half way across the country and then getting the damn car home from Indiana and all the corn fields I saw and the several Jersey barriers I almost crashed into going Very Fast, Very Late at night listening to the Beastie Boys tape, Check Your Head (of all things) that I bought at a truck stop Very Loud for the fifth time that trip.
The short of it - Richmod Indiana to Denver CO in ~ 20 hours; got on I-70 in Richmod, got off of it 5 miles from my house - corn fields between, much caffeine drunk -
Last week, I bought a 12" Powerbook. It's such the little runner, I'm in the process of replacing my desktop with it. At home, I can connect it to the monitor and keyboard I already have, when I'm out an about - which is almost always, I can use it just as it is, in its minature size.
I think I have a weird attraction to things that are small. For instance, my digi camera is the smallest I can find for the highest quality, the Metro I drive has only three cylinders (and underpowered, and slightly uncomfortable, and the heat doesn't much work and the tape player was stolen (Check Your Head was not), but I don't mind only going to the gas pump once a month!), my apartment is basically studio sized with a half kitchen attached, my cellphone is minature and out of the way (and replaces the land line). It's just nice to have Technology and not have it literally weigh you down.
It may be tied into the idea that I don't want what I own to define myself, it may be that I understand the Time I live in better than most and I can see how I can adapt myself to it well.
It does feel odd that my sketchbook is now larger than my laptop though.
